Improvement in clothes-pins



H. MELLISH.

Clothes-Pins.

N0.143,024. PatentedSept`ember23,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MELLISH, OF WALPOLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHE-S-PINS.

Speclication forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,024, dated September 23, 1873; application iled July 31, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY MELLIsH, of Valpole, in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain Improvements in Clothes-Fins, of which the following is a specication: s

The object of 1ny invention is to produce a pin that shall hold clothes firmly to a smooth wireline, and to prevent their being shoved along into bunches on the line by the wind; and also to cheapen the manufacture of the pins, which I do by the construction, in a clothes-pin, of an open flexible prong, A, and a rigid prong, B, with a suitable body, C, as shown in the perspective view, Figure 1. The prong is made ilexible by cutting an elliptical opening, D, through it, and cutting through the end of the spring-bar a to separate it from the body C of the pin.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe pin, with a cross-section, b, of the clothes-line held rmly in the triangular space c by the pressure of the spring-bar a, and the points of the prongs much nearer each other than when the pin is not on the line.

I claim as my invention- A clothes-pin constructed of the open flexible prong A, the rigid prong B, with a suitable body to forni the pin, as described.

Witnesses: HENRY MELLISII.

Clins. B. MELLIsH, J osmn G. BELLows. 

